Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be a concomitant of technology, this tacit directive is examined here as an aesthetic emblem rather than a rational or functional ideal and is contextualized as a badge of Modernism's identity.
This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be a concomitant of technology, this tacit directive is examined here as an aesthetic emblem rather than a rational or functional ideal and is contextualized as a badge of Modernism's identity.
Horizontality
Schumacher, Thomas L. (Autor:in)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 59 ; 17-26
01.09.2005
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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Horizontality: The Modernist Line
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